Bay Terrace, Queens
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Bay Terrace is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens, and is often considered part of Bayside. The Bay Terrace housing development in the 1950s and the creation of the Bay Terrace Shopping Center lent the area its own identity. Bay Terrace overlooks the East River and the approaches to the Throgs Neck Bridge from the Clearview Expressway and Cross Island Parkway. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 7,[1] and within ZIP Code 11360.
The civic organization serving Bay Terrace is the Bay Terrace Community Alliance (BTCA).[2]
Bay Terrace is also a shortened name for the Bay Terrace at Bayside Shopping Center.[3]
[edit] History
It is believed[citation needed] that the Bell family (after whom Bell Boulevard is named) had a farm in Bay Terrace, at the site of the Towers At Water's Edge near 18th Ave. between Bell Blvd. and the Cross Island Parkway. Ruins of the foundation and an old treehouse were still visible when construction began on the Towers in the late 1960s.[citation needed]
[edit] Education
Bay Terrace residents are zoned to New York City Department of Education schools. The elementary school in Bay Terrace is PS 169.[4] The middle schools are Intermediate School 25[5] and Junior High School 194.[6] The public high school is Bayside High School.[7]
The Queens Borough Public Library operates the Bay Terrace Branch.
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